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  1. Coastal Tree Diasy

  2. I've just collected seed from the coastal tree daisy out on the cliffs this afternoon.
    Why is Olearia solandri a daisy? If its to do with the flower, then why isn't the Olearia paniculata of which I also collected seed today a daisy?

  3. All Olearia are members of the Asteraceae or daisy family(its to do with their flower structure),their flowers can vary enormously in size.

  4. Hi John, they're both members of the Asteraceae family and the tree/shrub species of these in NZ are sometimes colloquially known as tree daisy. Daisies are most often a herb, but they incredibly variable (think Celmisia, tree Olearias, Leptinella, Sonchus etc). Some people are often confused in that the flowers in some "daisy" species have obvious "petals" (actually a ligule), such as dandelion, while the flower of other species, such as Leptinella and some tree daisies, have no obvious ligules and look like a button. Flowers of species classified in the Asteraceae are ALL clustered into a tightly-packed head and the flower's corolla is fused into a tube (among other characters) which is why such a range of forms are all classified together in the Asteraceae family! Sometimes this family is referred to as the Compositae and colloquially as the daisy family! Common names can be such fun .....

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